Quilting-frame for sewing-machines



(No Model.)

H. T. DAVIS.

QUILTING FRAME POR SEWING MACHINES. No. 271,689.

Patented Feb. 6, 1883.

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UNITED STATES ATENT Orifice.

HENRY T. DAVIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

QUILTING-FRAIVIE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 271,689, dated February 6, 1883. i Application filed october 18,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY T. DAVIS, ofthe city of St.` Louis, in the Stute of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improve- Fig. 4 is a perspective view, enlarged, showing the manner in'which the quilt-franie travels on the supporting-frame. Fig. 5 is an en larged perspective View of one end ,of the quilt-frame. Fig. 6 is a detail enlarged section, illustrating; the manner of holding the quilt-rollers to their adjustment. Fig. 7 is an enlarged view, showing the mannerot' securing the end and side pieces together.

My invention relates to a frame made entirely of' gas-pipe and to he used on a sewingmachine; and my invention consists in the novel construction ot' the frame,'hereinat'ter described and claimed.

A represents the table of a sewing-machine, to which the supporting-frame B is secured by means of clamps C, consisting each ofa holt, D, with a right-angle head, E, which is inserted through a hole made in the frame toreceive it, (see Fig. 3,) and a nut, F, and a block, G, the block engaging beneath the table, as shown.

H H are blocks placed between the frame and the table, to keep the latter from being scratched by the former.

The frame B consists of two parallel pipes, B' B', connected by end pieces, B2 B2, to which legs B3 B3 are secured in the usual manner of connecting gas-pipes. The frame to which the quilt is secured is supported by and travels on this frame B by means of pulleys I, secured to the quilt-frame, to a'central pipe, J, thereof, which pulleys travel on one of the pipes B', and a pulley or roller, K, on the outer end of an arm, L, connected to the pipe J, which travels on the other pipe B', as shown.

The quilt-frame consists of two outer pipes,

M M, on which the quilt is rolled and which and the other end bent to pass down through u. hole made in the corner-coupling, and

. through holes P', made in the end ot' the side pipe. When a roller is to be turned the catches are all raised to disengage their ends from the rollers, and then,being released, will re-enter a hole P', holding the rollers to their places. The end pipes 0r pieces are held to the side pipes by pins Q.

I claim asmy invention- A quilting-frame made entirely of gas-pipe, consisting of side pipes, M, cud pipes, N, bent as shown, center pipes, J and O, grooved rollers I, secured to the pipe J, arm L, secured to the pipe J, grooved roller K on the outer end ot' the arm L, and supporting-frame B, supporting the quilt-frame and clamped tothe sewing-machine table, all as set forth.

HENRY T. DAVIS.

Witnesses SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

